Leaders who constantly firefight make bad decisions and burn out their best people. Teams stuck in crisis mode skip post-mortems and planning, so the same problems keep happening. Shift to prevention instead.
And Cem, quickly, you wanted to add something? Yeah. Yeah, actually, the real cost of firefighting is it's taking a toll on a lot of us, especially for leaders. So decisions that were made under pressure are just generally not that efficient. And at the same time, second, as leaders, we became too dependent on a few people, those heroes or those firefighters. Instead of looking into how we will be able to prevent it in the first place, as what was mentioned before. And third but not the least, of course, the real cause is every— the team becomes so engrossed with the current situation that nobody dared to look back for postmortem, and nobody seemed to look ahead. on what's, uh, what's in store. So in that, the cycle repeats over and over, and it becomes a norm. Okay.
